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28whitepeonies · 2 years
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Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has been in the media all day talking about the rail strikes and god what a great spokesperson he has been for them.
Here he is handling some ridiculous line of questioning from Kay Burley who is trying to suggest the union will be encouraging violence on the picket lines and referencing the 1980’s miners strikes, which is pretty absurd for a whole host of reasons:
Here he is calling Chris Philp, a Tory MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport a liar approximately 900 times for spouting nonsense on Newsnight (I can only post one vid so these will be links)
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Here he is telling Richard Madeley he’s talking “twaddle” for asking him if he’s a Marxist, which tbh I think was polite because imo Richard Madeley is just a c u n t xx
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And if you’ve any uncertainty as to why rail workers are striking, these two clips will be a good place to start
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i love the extras of dungeon meshi in how it fleshes out the world because they make it so much more evident how race affects every part of the story while avoiding the zootopia racism problem. like obv a main theme of the story is like, humanity and desire, 'to eat is to live', etc, but since the majority of it takes place in the dungeon isolated from society and thru the lens of laios, the racial aspects play out more like shadows on a wall for most of the story.
then in the extras we get comics like this
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which at a glance fleshes out the racial aspects via a character explaining the racial rules of universe - humans have x amount of bones, while orcs and kobolds have more. however, if u take it less straightforwardly, it points out how the concept of 'human' is a constructed concept in the world. the fact that there are different categories of human in different parts of the world based off of what types of humanoids occur there is already a demonstration of this. in response, the bones explanation seems to kabru and the characters as an objective way of measuring humans vs nonhumans.
but obv, when the culture was deciding what humanoids were humans and nonhumans, they weren't blindly analyzing skeletons and then deciding. just visually, one can glean that orcs and kobolds look less like the ingroup of tallmen, elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc. the bones explanation appears as a justification for that immediate prejudice under a scientific guise - I'm sure that one could come up with the same number of physical differences between a gnome and an elf that they would find between a tallman and an orc. it sounds a lot better to say 'well, an orc has 230 bones while a human has 206' then 'well, an orc looks ewwww yucky yucky to me while a human looks normal'.
and what i like abt the comic is that the characters take the explanation at face value for the most part. when a contradiction is brought up in the oni, kabru can neatly slot them into the predetermined number of bones framework. bc that's kinda how it works irl - there r cultural prejudices that we can posthumously justify, and if we find something outside of it, we can twist it to fit into our predetermined binary. however, since the reader does not live in a world where there are orcs and kobolds to be prejudiced against, we can see that flaw in the cultural logic. when the party encounters the orcs, the number of bones has no bearing on their humanity. They r shown to be cliquish and distrusting of outsiders, but not any more than the elves are later in the story.
tldr dungeon meshi worldbuilding is so good
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greekcomedy · 4 months
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percy as camp half bloods union representative was so real actually like he goes to the underworld, the literal place you go where you die and he's immediately talking to charon like. have you thought about organizing against the wealthy man controlling you 🤔 are your wages increasing to match inflation? and then he actually brings it up to hades. shrek they don't even have dental moment truly
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isawiitch · 5 months
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ok folks time to start rallying for The Animation Guild union stuff
Nickelodeon Production Workers are asking for signatures on this petition to put more pressure lon employers regarding their unwillingness to negotiate further on long expired contract, which now includes the newly unionized Production Workers (previously only covered Artists).
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nighttimepatrons · 3 months
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Notice: The Balrogs have unionized.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again on Sunday, saying that Israel’s actions in Gaza are “ethnic cleansing.”
Sanders reiterated his familiar call on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday to hold Netanyahu responsible for Israel’s actions in Gaza, pointing to the staggering death toll and the displacement of Palestinians in the region. He was asked to respond to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests that have broken out on college campuses across the country and to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) remarks last week when visiting Columbia University.
“What I think the essential point that Ilhan made is that we do not want to see antisemitism in this country. And I think the word ‘genocide’ is something that is being determined by the International Court of Justice,” he said.
“But just as what I will say: I don’t think there’s any doubt that what Netanyahu is doing now — displacing 80% of the population in Gaza — is ethnic cleansing. That’s what it is. Pushing out huge numbers of people,” he added.
Omar visited Columbia’s campus last week, where the national spotlight has focused on the hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered there. CNN played a clip of her comments Sunday on the ongoing protests on “State of the Union.”
“I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide,” she said.
Sanders has repeatedly criticized Netanyahu for the ongoing war in Gaza and has opposed more U.S. funding to Israel. He also reiterated his calls for an end to U.S. funding to Israel’s actions in Gaza.
“And now we’re looking at the possibility of an attack on Rafah, where people have gone to as a so-called safety zone. So, what’s going on there, again, to my mind, is outrageous. And as you’ve indicated, I strongly oppose U.S. funding for Netanyahu’s war machine,” he added.
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louisdelac · 16 days
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it's so so so important to unionize, because without the ability to collective bargain how would you stop your employers from stealing your name for some sort of weird kink roleplay that definitely ends with them having sex while, again, calling out your name. the rich will always fetishize your labor when given the chance never forget this.
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the-magnusinstitute · 1 month
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How can I go about getting hired?
All of the details about our job vacancies are on our website, which is linked in our pinned post. Also, if you’re in London, feel free to drop by with your CV and Elias will hold a quick interview.
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unlicensedmortician · 16 days
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i was born in the right generation if i couldn’t put music from wildly different genres on my monthly playlist and blast it through my noise cancelling headphones while waiting for the bus after work i would have to explode people with my brain
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vamprisms · 1 month
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writing sounds hard i just want to clock in for a 12 hour shift of themes and motifs
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shoeshineyboy · 2 years
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ask yourself why you’re living paycheck to paycheck in 2022. ask yourself whose fault it is and look up at your bosses, at the shareholders, at the government. there is no fucking reason for anyone in Britain to be living in poverty in 2022. this is an active choice by the people in power, who refuse to tax effectively, who refuse to use the money from taxes effectively, who look down on you and laugh as they drink bottle after bottle of champagne, the grand total of which is equivalent to a month of your wages.
why isn’t your boss giving you a raise? they’re giving themself a bonus. ask who the ‘profit’ and ‘savings’ are going to, the ones that were announced a week after you were told that your wages were stagnating again. remember that you were denied a raise because of the increase in the cost of utilities for your workplace, the same increase in cost which is having you avoiding watching television and sitting in the dark.
our taxes have gone up. where is that money going? why are we paying more for a lesser quality of life? why are we denying ourselves social interaction, when politicians are building new swimming pools and going on multiple holidays. why is a single pint of milk over £1? why is filling up my car costing me £100? why is everything getting expensive and why is the quality only going down?
why are food banks a necessity for anyone in 2022?
Enough is Enough.
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notallsandmen · 9 months
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freakpit · 17 days
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people talk about having a senshi in their head that tells them to eat balanced meal. i have a chilchuck in my head demanding i take active part in my union
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hockeylichen · 17 days
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lee stecklein i love you forever and ever
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the term.
“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court,” Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States. … These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court,” the New York Democrat said.
The Supreme Court last week released opinions on several landmark decisions that included blows to affirmative action programs in college admissions, President Biden’s student debt relief program, and LGBTQ rights — rulings Republicans have largely lauded and Democrats have decried.
Ocasio-Cortez, a frequent critic of the conservative court, on Sunday argued that Justices “are expanding their role into acting as though they are Congress itself,” noting recent controversies surrounding ethics standards and arguing Justices’ power should be limited.
“And that, I believe, is an expansion of power that we really must be focusing on: the danger of this Court and the abuse of power in this Court, particularly … as it is related to the entanglements around conflicts of interest as well,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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